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Running nutrition

  • 20-02-2008 11:35am
    #1
    TheRoadRunner
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    I was just wondering has anybody ever visited a sports nutritionist / dietician ?
    And if so how did you get on ?

    I have gone to a couple of sports nutritionists myself and didn't find them much help. I have a decent enough diet and am close to my ideal weight and had hoped I could make some magical gains, but these failed to materialise.


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  • #2
    copacetic
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    possibly you weren't the right person to actually need their help road runner? I haven't been but know some people who have. I was put off my the over the top (imo) attitude of some of them. eg giving up weetabix because it is bad for you! I don't intend on eating brown rice and tuna with no sauce or oil for the rest of my life!

    What kind of advice do you get?


  • #3
    doke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 872 ✭✭✭doke


    TheRoadRunner wrote: »
    I

    I have gone to a couple of sports nutritionists myself and didn't find them much help. I have a decent enough diet and am close to my ideal weight and had hoped I could make some magical gains, but these failed to materialise.

    Given that last sentence, there are no magical gains to be made, I venture. The people who benefit most would be the ones eating crap.

    My coach places a huge emphasis on nutrition and when we hooked up he asked me to send him details of everything I eat in a typical week. Then he just came back and said "That's all fine, nothing we really need to change there". One of the many benefits of marrying a Frenchwoman: the French know how to eat better than anyone else.

    In my opinion nutrition beyond "eating well" is really only a major consideration if you're doing long distance stuff (marathon and beyond). Then you have to put some thought into your carb/fat/protein ratios, when you eat what and what to eat during a run. The last two assuming particular importance in ultras (distances longer than the standard marathon).


  • #4
    TheRoadRunner
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    doke wrote: »
    Given that last sentence, there are no magical gains to be made, I venture. The people who benefit most would be the ones eating crap.

    I'd agree with you there. I was only joking about the magical gains btw


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